Friday, June 24, 2005
History is Rove!
Karl Rove, whose high-minded quest to accumulate power to those ennobled by birth knows no bounds, said something the other day that should galvanize all who read this blog. In a speech to a conservative group, he said, "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."
Unfortunately, the Democrats (liberals!) actually passed a resolution on Sept 14, 2001 granting the president "all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons." The resolution passed the House 420-1 and the Senate 98-0.
For partisans of ideological certitude, this creates two problems. The first is the presence of this vote in the historical record; the second, the fact that our supremely competent leader has yet to capture that irrepressible scalawag Bin Laden. So we here at RSA are calling ideologues of good will to action: First, get out there and secure all the newspapers, television footage, and post-it notes from the time and excise this inconvenient fact from the record. We can't have it. We know the positive momentum and good fortune of the country depends on happy thoughts and memories. Facts like this detract from our ability to focus on the source of our malaise, those odious trolls from the netherworld, the liberals. They can't have acted with faith courage or patriotism after 911, and if the facts say otherwise, we must change the facts. Second, we have to forget about Osama Bin Laden. Yes, we can put a man on the moon, but we can't get him. Some things are just hard work. So as of today, we all need to tell our wives and husbands, friends and neighbors that he is already caught.
Okay, well, if not already caught, not worth capturing.
Okay, well, if worth capturing, too hard to catch.
Okay, if not too hard to catch, not that important.
Okay, if important, impossible to catch because the liberals are keeping us from catching him.
Yeah, that's it. It's the fault of liberals.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8324598/
Unfortunately, the Democrats (liberals!) actually passed a resolution on Sept 14, 2001 granting the president "all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons." The resolution passed the House 420-1 and the Senate 98-0.
For partisans of ideological certitude, this creates two problems. The first is the presence of this vote in the historical record; the second, the fact that our supremely competent leader has yet to capture that irrepressible scalawag Bin Laden. So we here at RSA are calling ideologues of good will to action: First, get out there and secure all the newspapers, television footage, and post-it notes from the time and excise this inconvenient fact from the record. We can't have it. We know the positive momentum and good fortune of the country depends on happy thoughts and memories. Facts like this detract from our ability to focus on the source of our malaise, those odious trolls from the netherworld, the liberals. They can't have acted with faith courage or patriotism after 911, and if the facts say otherwise, we must change the facts. Second, we have to forget about Osama Bin Laden. Yes, we can put a man on the moon, but we can't get him. Some things are just hard work. So as of today, we all need to tell our wives and husbands, friends and neighbors that he is already caught.
Okay, well, if not already caught, not worth capturing.
Okay, well, if worth capturing, too hard to catch.
Okay, if not too hard to catch, not that important.
Okay, if important, impossible to catch because the liberals are keeping us from catching him.
Yeah, that's it. It's the fault of liberals.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8324598/
